.NASA has seven active missions focused on the exploration of Mars, including two rovers and five orbiters. What is NASA doing on Mars?
The other rover in the Mars Exploration Rover mission, Opportunity, sent its last message to NASA five years ago, and since then, the space agency has continued its exploration of the red planet. Here is a look at NASA's current and future exploration of Mars.NASA has seven active missions focused on the exploration of Mars, including two rovers and five orbiters.
The Perseverance rover was launched in July 2020 and landed on Mars in February 2021. The goal of this mission is to answer"high-priority science goals," including the potential for life on the planet. The Mars Sample Return campaign is a long-term mission with the goal of bringing back rocks and soil from Mars to investigate the planet further.
Currently, the space agency has the launch dates for the Earth Return Orbiter as 2027 and the Sample Retrieval Lander as 2028, with those spacecraft expected to arrive at Mars in 2029 and 2030, respectively. The mission timeline calls for the samples to be returned to Earth in 2033.The Artemis program is scheduled to land men and women on the moon in the coming years, but the program has an eye for a future manned mission to the red planet.
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